Thank you for providing this information about the issue. After thorough testing, we are unable to reproduce this problem in Edge. We used Fiddler to monitor the network traffic and windowscentral.com to test; this website has polling-uri’s in the webpage meta tag. After pinned to start menu, svchost.exe sends 5 http requests to this website approximately every 30 minutes. When we unpin the secondary tile, the requests do not occur any more.

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